The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-03-24
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THE Ohio Legislature closed its ses-
sion last Monday. Good riddance.
TIE Maine Legislature has abolish
ed capital punishment in that State.
SOME, of the richest Congressman
are the poorest Congressman. And
there is nothing paradoxical about it,
either.-[Puck,
THE late Henry Ward Beecher
preached his first sermon at Batavia,
o., in building now used as livery
stable.
TIE Union Labor party of Akron
have put full city ticket in the field.
and xpress confidence in their ability
10 elect it.
AND so we don't get law providing
for the teaG hing in the public schools
of the fleets of alcohol and narcotics
on the human system.
THE removal of the war tariff on
the actual necessaries of life would
help the soldiers more than all the
pen~ion bills eyer framed in their be
half
Elk GOVERNOR HoADLY and Edgar
Nj. Johnson. his partner, were sworn
ip al placed their signatures to the
roll cf attorneys and copnsellors of the
State of New York, on the 10th inst.
THE Supreme Court of the United
States has just rendered an opinion
that State taxation of {" drummers
or commercial travellers is All inter-
ference with inter. state commerce.
The Legislature has passed the bill
increasing the Governors salary from
81, 900 to S.. 900 per annum but owing
to provision of the constitution, the
present incumbent will not be bene-
fitted by the law.
CHANG YEU HooU. the Chinese
Minister, sat for some photographs i'll
Washington, last week. He had a
million dollars worth of jeweiry on
his person. He sat in several differ
ent costumes and positions.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has put quistus
upon the report of his intention to
visit Washington on the occasion Of
the national drill in May. He says,
in letter to friend, that he will not
be pi est Mt on that occasion that he
is too old to travel, aud that he never
expects to see Washington again.
A SEVERE free ~ in Southern Geor-
gia Sunday, caused incalculaDle DAM
age to garden truck, Peas were about
ready to ship and were badly injured,
as were also potatoes, tomatoes, beans,
strawberries, and it is feared the peach
crop has also suffered.
A JAMESTOWN, N. Y, dispatch of
the 2lst says that a disastrous fire oc
CURED at Cbautauqua the night pfe
vious. Eighty cottages were burned TO
the ground, and the new hotel Was
slightly injured. The estimate Of the
loss is placed at $l25, 600.
HERE is a weapon of domestic dis
cord for the anti-suffragists to raise
over the heads of the faithful. Frank
M. Gay, editor of Washington Ter
ritory peper, is Republican. but his
wife, who helps him, is Democrat,
The COOL woman kept quiet until her
husband went off to collect subscrip
tions, and then, being obliged to write
the editorials, she wrote blazing lead
ers on the other side.
THE Duke of Sutherland, who was
recently in Washington, owns very
large tracts of land in this country,
Aggregaiing. it is said, 425,O 600 acres
His possessions in Great Britain cover
1855, ,545 acres, yielding an income OF
SOS, 335. He also has ST. 500, 900 in
vested in Scotch railroad. He is the
owner of Dunrobin Castle, Loeb Inver
House House of Tongue, Tarbet House
and Castle Leod, all in Scotland, and
Stafford House, Trentham Hall. Lii
leshall Hall and Chiefden,in England